WaspsWasps Index Australian Large Wasps Australian Mud Nest Wasps Mud Wasp Velvet Ants Abispa ephippium Acarozumia amaliae Aulacidae Australodynerus Bembix Bembicinae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Braconidae Chrysididae Cryptocheilus bicolor (Orange Spider Wasp) Delta latreillei (Potter Wasp) Delta philantes Eumeninae Ferreola handschini (Orange-collared Spider Wasp) Flower Wasps Gasteruptiid Wasp Hairy Flower Wasps Isodontia (Grass-carrying Wasp) Lissopimpla excelsa (Orchid Dupe Wasp) Mutillidae Paralastor sp. Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Radumeris radula (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Sceliphron laetum Thynnid Wasps Tiphiidae Torymus Yellow and Black Wasp
The genus Torymus are a group of wasps, from the family Torymidae, and commonly known as Chalcid Wasps. Most of the species in this group are ectoparasitoids of gall forming insects. An ectoparasitoid, is a parasite that lives externally on another animal and eventually kills it.
At time of writing (23 December 2023)4, there were listed 363 described species.
The pictured Torymus were often seen on the Poached Egg Daisy (Polycalymma stuartii). They are very small flying insect.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Hymenoptera
- Superfamily: Chalcidoidea
- Family: Torymidae
- Subfamily: Toryminae
- Genus: Torymus
Footnote & References
- Many thanks for ID to Ken Walker, member of Australian Polistinae and other Hymenoptera, Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/188453645581988/
- Torymus Dalman, 1820, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/5f51a8f5-2ec9-4d93-84a4-574934ecfef7
- Genus Torymus, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/250220-Torymus
- Torymus, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torymus
WaspsWasps Index Australian Large Wasps Australian Mud Nest Wasps Mud Wasp Velvet Ants Abispa ephippium Acarozumia amaliae Aulacidae Australodynerus Bembix Bembicinae Blue Hairy Flower Wasp Braconidae Chrysididae Cryptocheilus bicolor (Orange Spider Wasp) Delta latreillei (Potter Wasp) Delta philantes Eumeninae Ferreola handschini (Orange-collared Spider Wasp) Flower Wasps Gasteruptiid Wasp Hairy Flower Wasps Isodontia (Grass-carrying Wasp) Lissopimpla excelsa (Orchid Dupe Wasp) Mutillidae Paralastor sp. Pseudabispa bicolor ssp. nigrocinctoides Radumeris radula (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Radumeris tasmaniensis (Yellow Hairy Flower Wasp) Sceliphron laetum Thynnid Wasps Tiphiidae Torymus Yellow and Black Wasp
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